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Saturday, July 27, 2024

Newsom Orders California Officials to Remove Homeless Encampments (NYT) Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California state officials on Thursday to begin dismantling thousands of homeless encampments, the nation’s most sweeping response to a recent Supreme Court ruling that gave governments greater authority to remove homeless people from their streets. More than in any other state, homeless encampments have been a wrenching issue in California, where housing costs are among the nation’s highest, complicating the many other factors that contribute to homelessness. An estimated 180,000 people were homeless last year in California, and most of them were unsheltered. Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, called on state officials and local leaders to “humanely remove encampments from public spaces” and act “with urgency,” prioritizing those that most threaten health and safety.

Wealth of global top 1% grew by $42 trillion over past decade: Oxfam (CNN) According to a new report by Oxfam International, the top 1% of global earners saw their fortunes grow by more than $42 trillion over the past decade. That growth is more than 34 times the rate experienced by the poorest 50% of the global population. In terms of inflation-adjusted real dollars, one-percenters saw their wealth grow by almost $400,000 per person, while the bottom 50% saw their fortunes grow by just $335 (9 cents per day!) during the same period. “Inequality has reached obscene levels, and until now governments have failed to protect people and planet from its catastrophic effects,” said Oxfam’s head of inequality policy.

Top Sinaloa cartel leader taken into U.S. custody alongside son of ‘El Chapo’ (Foreign Policy) U.S. authorities arrested two suspected leaders of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel on Thursday in one of U.S. law enforcement’s biggest victories against the organization, which is considered the No. 1 supplier of fentanyl into the United States. Federal agents reportedly tricked Sinaloa co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada into boarding a private plane carrying Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of co-founder and former Sinaloa boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán. Zambada thought the aircraft was taking them to inspect property in Mexico near the U.S. border. However, Guzmán López was actually helping U.S. officials capture Zambada, according to a U.S. law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. The U.S.-bound plane landed at Santa Teresa International Jetport in Texas, on Thursday, where Guzmán López and Zambada were then both detained.

Is this the beginning of the end for the Maduro regime in Venezuela? (Washington Post) For the span of a generation, Venezuela’s opposition has toiled fitfully and, at times, ineffectually to claw back power from an increasingly autocratic regime entrenched in Caracas. They mobilized mass demonstrations and endured brutal crackdowns. They saw myriad false dawns, intense factional infighting and constant intimidation and attacks by forces loyal to President Nicolás Maduro, who has ruled since the death of the charismatic socialist demagogue Hugo Chávez in 2013. Now, after a decade of economic calamity and political repression, Venezuela stands on the brink of once-unfathomable change. A presidential election Sunday could see Maduro not just lose, but lose by a landslide. Opinion polls have him trailing the opposition challenger, Edmundo González—a soft-spoken, 74-year-old former diplomat who became the candidate after authorities disqualified popular opposition leader María Corina Machado—by double digits. It’s far from clear whether Maduro will stomach defeat and allow such an outcome, but his opponents are hopeful. Even if Maduro loses, his allies will still dominate the country’s judiciary, its rubber-stamp legislature, and the armed forces.

Saboteurs paralyze French high-speed rail network hours before start of Olympics (AP) France’s high-speed rail network was hit Friday with widespread and “criminal” acts of vandalism including arson attacks, paralyzing travel to Paris from across the rest of France and Europe only hours before the grand opening ceremony of the Olympics. French officials described the attacks as “criminal actions.” The disruptions as the world’s eye was turning to Paris were expected to affect a quarter of a million people alone on Friday and endure through the weekend, and possibly longer, officials said. The attack occurred against a backdrop of global tensions and heightened security measures as the city prepared for the 2024 Olympic Games.

The Paris Olympics opened in spectacular style (NYT) Nearly 7,000 athletes from 206 delegations were ferried down the Seine today (Friday) in an extravagant and star-studded opening ceremony to kick off the Olympic Games in Paris. As the rain poured, hundreds of thousands of spectators cheered from the river’s banks. And Celine Dion closed out the night with a triumphant return to the stage. The ceremony was a showcase for the city after years of planning. It continued as scheduled only hours after coordinated arson attacks brought France’s national rail system to a standstill. Some competitions have already begun, but the Games move into full swing Saturday with men’s basketball, tennis and women’s swimming.

A Mysterious Plot Prompts a Rare Call From Russia to the Pentagon (NYT) Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III received an unusual request from an unlikely caller: His Russian counterpart, defense minister Andrei Belousov, wanted to talk. Mr. Belousov was calling to relay a warning, according to two U.S. officials and another official briefed on the call: The Russians had detected a Ukrainian covert operation in the works against Russia that they believed had the Americans’ blessing. Was the Pentagon aware of the plot, Mr. Belousov asked Mr. Austin, and its potential to ratchet up tensions between Moscow and Washington? Pentagon officials were surprised by the allegation and unaware of any such plot, the two U.S. officials said. Despite Ukraine’s deep dependence on the United States for military, intelligence and diplomatic support, Ukrainian officials are not always transparent with their American counterparts about their military operations, especially those against Russian targets behind enemy lines. These operations have frustrated U.S. officials, who believe that they have not measurably improved Ukraine’s position on the battlefield but have risked alienating European allies and widening the war.

Ukraine: Drones on the battlefront (BBC) Over the past year, the war in Ukraine has evolved so that drones—once peripheral to the action—have become a central component. Within minutes individual soldiers, fast-moving vehicles and trench positions can be precisely targeted, as our reporting team discovered. The last images from drone cameras are usually of men panicking, their arms flailing, weapons firing before they are killed. The Khartia Brigade’s 37-year-old drone commander, who goes by the call sign Aeneas, says that without shelter in a building there is little chance of survival—for Russians, and his men too. “It’s the new way or a new path in modern war,” he says. Aeneas takes us on a tour of his drone teams, embedded along the front line in Lyptsi, just six miles (10km) from the Russian border. Every vehicle we encountered near there was fitted with drone-jamming equipment; but the jammer’s protection ends when you exit the vehicle. It’s dangerous to be caught out in the open, so we follow Aeneas running across the rubble for cover. All the while the BBC’s own drone detector calls out calmly into an earpiece: “Detection: multiple drones, multiple pilots. High signal strength.”

Typhoon Gaemi wreaked the most havoc in the country it didn’t hit directly—the Philippines (AP) What was Typhoon Gaemi has weakened to a severe tropical storm and headed toward inland China on Friday after making landfall the previous evening on the east coast. The storm felled trees, flooded streets and damaged crops in China but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage. Five people died in Taiwan, which Gaemi crossed at typhoon strength on Thursday before heading over open waters to China. The worst loss of life, however, was in a country that Gaemi earlier passed by but didn’t strike directly: the Philippines. A steadily climbing death toll has reached 32, authorities there said Friday. The typhoon exacerbated seasonal monsoon rains in the Southeast Asian country, causing landslides and severe flooding that stranded people on rooftops as waters rose around them.

Israel recovers bodies of five hostages amid delay in talks (Washington Post) The bodies of five Israelis killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and then taken to Gaza have been recovered, the Israel Defense Forces said Thursday, as families of hostages reacted angrily to news that an Israeli negotiating team has delayed its latest trip to Qatar for talks to free those remaining. Israeli media contrasted the news about the recovery of the bodies with Benjamin Netanyahu’s triumphant speech in the United States and the lack of a hostage deal.

Wounded in a strike that killed her family, a 2-year-old joins Gaza’s ranks of thousands of orphans (AP) The 2-year-old toddler lay on a foil blanket, her face covered with salve for her burns and her little body riddled with scars from shrapnel. She squirmed, her breath heaving, as doctors examined her and the tube in her chest. Siwar Abdel-Hadi is now an orphan. She’s the lone survivor of an Israeli strike that hit their family home in central Gaza, killing her parents, her two sisters and her brother, along with a brother of her mother. “The whole family was gathered around a table for lunch” when the missile struck Tuesday in the Bureij refugee camp, said Nour Abdel-Hadi, one of Siwar’s paternal aunts. Israel’s campaign of bombardment and offensives in Gaza has left thousands of orphans. Cases like Siwar’s have become so common, doctors created an acronym for it: WCNSF, “wounded child, no surviving family.” The United Nations estimated in February that some 17,000 children in the territory are now unaccompanied, and the number is likely to have grown since.

As Starvation Spreads in Sudan, Military Blocks Aid Trucks at Border (NYT) As Sudan hurtles toward famine, its military is blocking the United Nations from bringing enormous amounts of food into the country through a vital border crossing, effectively cutting off aid to hundreds of thousands of starving people during the depths of a civil war. Experts warn that Sudan, barely functioning after 15 months of fighting, could soon face one of the world’s worst famines in decades. But the Sudanese military’s refusal to let U.N. aid convoys through the crossing is thwarting the kind of all-out relief effort that aid groups say is needed to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths—as many as 2.5 million, according to one estimate—by the end of this year. The risk is greatest in Darfur, the Spain-sized region that suffered a genocide two decades ago. Time is running out to help them.

Chigger Season (NYT) Dr. Stephanie Lareau whizzed through the trees on her mountain bike in Roanoke, Va., one day in 2018. When she wanted to stop for water and a snack, she didn’t think much of plunking down in a pile of leaves near a reservoir to rest. The next day, Dr. Lareau found a cluster of red bumps along the waistband of her shorts. Her back started to itch intensely. Dr. Lareau, an emergency medicine physician at Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital in Virginia, had seen these marks once or twice before on patients. They were from chiggers, a species of tiny, reddish-brown mites able to leave bites that remain itchy for days or weeks. Hot spots for bites include folds of skin near tight clothing such as waistbands, the top of sock lines and the area behind the knees. (If you see red bites clustered around your waistband, you can assume they’re from chiggers rather than mosquitoes or other bugs, Dr. Lareau said.)

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gatheringbones · 3 years ago

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[“Fentanyl was the era’s poster drug. A wonderful medical tool, the hyperpotent synthetic emerged as the underworld’s hyperprofitable heroin substitute. Supplies of it came from China, then from Mexico, as well. Fentanyl upended the dope world the way tech disrupted business. No farmland needed—no pesticides, no harvesting, no seasons, no irrigation. It shrank the heroin supply chain—from dozens of people down to two or three, none of whom were likely to be scary cartel types.

Illicit fentanyl spread first through the midwestern and eastern states. By 2018 it was all over the West as well. Overdose deaths shot farther north; more Americans died yearly than in the entire Vietnam War. Cuyahoga County, where Cleveland is located, saw overdoses double from 2014 to 2017—from 353 to 727, with almost 500 deaths involving fentanyl. San Francisco saw a similar increase between 2018 and 2020, when three times as many people died of overdoses as of COVID-19. Philadelphia had long been a heroin town, but by 2019 90 percent of 1,150 fatal overdoses were due to fentanyl.

Traffickers, meanwhile, had discovered a way to make methamphetamine in harrowing new amounts. While I was on the road, their meth reached all corners of the country and became the fourth stage of the drug-addiction crisis. Opiate addicts began to switch to meth, or use both together. This made no sense in the traditional drug world. One was a depressant, the other a stimulant. But it was as if their brains were primed for any drug.

This stage did not involve mass deaths. Rather, the new meth gnawed at brains in frightening ways. Suddenly users displayed symptoms of schizophrenia—paranoia, hallucinations. The spread of this meth provoked homelessness across the country. Homeless encampments of meth users appeared in rural towns—“They’re almost like villages,” one Indiana counselor said. In the West, large tent encampments formed, populated by people made frantic by unseen demons in Skid Row in Los Angeles, Sunnyslope in Phoenix, the tunnels in Las Vegas. This methamphetamine, meanwhile, prompted strange obsessions—with bicycles, with flashlights, and with hoarding junk. In each of these places, it seemed mental illness was the problem. It was, but so much of it was induced by the new meth.

Fentanyl and this new meth were in the interest of traffickers, not their customers. Traffickers had unlimited access to world chemical markets, and the population of American drug users had expanded coast to coast. These drugs could be made year-round, in greater quantities, cheaper and more addictive than anything grown from the ground, and thus could create or shift demand. Their meth and fentanyl ended the notion of recreational drug use. Now anything could kill or mentally maim. What started as an epidemic of opiate addiction became, as I traveled, simply an epidemic of addiction, broadened by staggering supplies of corrosive synthetic dope.”]

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literatureatthebowofnails · 3 years ago

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Mysterious Dreams by Admiral at the Bow of Nails

Disclaimer: No one owns Loki; he’s just a hot pain in my sass. I don’t own Marvel, Viacom, or Darcy Lewis. Mythological similarities are mostly coincidental

A/N: I am so, so sorry the link was broken on my master list for some reason. Not sure how it happened, but you guys gotta tell me this shit. 🤦‍♀️ Also, anon asks on now, so ask/tell me shit like this.

I’m looking for a beta for future chapters, so if you’re interested, hit me up. Constructive criticism always appreciated. I'm dyslexic, so if you notice spelling errors in particular, tell me. Oh! And inconsistencies within the story! Little shit drives me crazy, like when The TERF Who Shall Not Be Named got the day of the week wrong at the beginning of her series. Anywho, love you all!

Series Warnings: Loki /fem!reader. Reader has nickname and backstory but no physical description. Language, angst. Smut, fluff, cunnilingus, masturbation, fingering. Character’s childhood trauma, violence, reader loss of consciousness, helplessness in traumatic situations, hospitalization. Reader/OMC, drinking, mentions of character "death"

Series Summary: This series begins during Thor (2011) and generally follows along that plot. After Loki’s visit to the SHIELD encampment, the timeline branches

Chapter Warnings: Teeth grinding

Chapter Summary: An old friend of Darcy’s is plagued by dreams of a mystery “god”

Word Count: 526

Sunday 5-1-2011 11:08 AM

You’re startled awake by pain and blood in your mouth. Getting up, you take a drink of water and examine the inside of your lower lip. You’d always been a night grinder, but this is the first time you bit yourself. Or bit yourself awake at least. Brow furrowed, you tongue the shallow abrasion and your canine, trying to remember the dream you were having.

It was some formal event, played out as though you were a ghost, gliding through the cheering crowd. Everything had been warm, bright, and golden (easily explained by the sun streaming through your window). You rub your eyes, chewing your lip in contemplation with a gasp at the renewed pain. ‘Presentation? Victory celebration?’

It was a massive throne room or temple of some sort. Some blond…'Soldier? warrior?' was walking towards an imposing throne. The steps leading to it were flanked by six guests of honor. You didn’t recognize anyone until your eyes caught one of their faces. It was Him. You’d almost missed him under that (frankly ridiculous) helmet, but upon seeing his guarded irritation, you’d woken up.

Reaching for a sweatshirt, you stare with concern at your alter for a long moment. “Tea. Tea and chocolate,” you mutter.

You walk to the kitchen, pulling the sweatshirt over your head and your hair into a bun. Still mulling over the dream, you go about your morning routine. Who is this mystery “god” you keep dreaming about? Are you just making shit up? Your subconscious creating some man out of sexual frustration, so you finally break and join a dating site?

These dreams have been going on for months now. At first, half-audible whispers, growing clearer and eventually gaining features. Some “prince of gods,” or so he claimed, who oh-so-politely demanded offerings. On one hand you’re half-convinced you’re losing it, on the other you’re making him a cup of tea with a splash of milk and more honey than any reasonable person could stomach.

Kneeling before the alter, you open a jar of chocolate biscotti and place one on a napkin beside the tea.

You can’t deny your garden is happier since you’ve acquiesced to his expectations. You’d had an embarrassingly black thumb, but now you’ve not only managed to maintain the snake plant Darcy left behind; it’s healthier than when she’d moved. You’ve even brought it a few friends.

Darcy had been your roommate for years, until she took an internship in New Mexico. It was an odd choice, considering she was studying poli-sci and the internship was in astrophysics, but it was worth twice the credits of the poli-sci options. You, on the other hand, are looking forward to beginning your job as a junior staffer for an up-and-coming senator. Your start date is two weeks away and you’re positively thrilled at the opportunity to work for such policy wonk.

Mind still on the dream, you give your alter a final troubled frown and curl up in your favorite seat. An examination of that first snake plant reveals its stress. You let out a sigh of understanding and flip open your phone.

Darc’

Me 11:41 AM: Hey! How’s the storm chasing?

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alsjeblieft-zeg · 2 years ago

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49 of 2022

Have You Ever Been To These Places?

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a coffee shop // yup in the Netherlands, greetings for those who understand. a bar/pub a restaurant a convenience store/gas station store a deli or small local supermarket an icecream shop a book shop a thrift store a movie rental store a hair salon a college or university campus inside of a dorm building a bank a music store a mobile phone store a florist/flower shop an electronics store a cosmetics/hair/makeup store a fast food restaurant a laundromat a drycleaner a smoke shop a shoe store an optician/glasses store the alamo [in Texas] Atlantic City, NJ the Big Ben the Colosseum the Dead Sea Death Valley, NV New York City, NY Disney World New Orleans, LA Niagara Falls Washington D.C. Las Vegas, NV Nashville, TN San Antonio, TX Seattle, WA Mount Rushmore Philadelphia, PA Hawaii Alaska a public school a museum a hotel a park a hospital someone else’s house a stadium an airport a train station the Taj Mahal Venice, Italy Paris // possibly soon San Francisco Hong Kong Stockholm Rome Sydney a subway station a gym an art gallery a theatre a movie theater/cinema a post office a public library a public parking garage a coffee shop // twice? someone likes weed lol a church a synagogue a mosque a castle a mansion a zoo a circus a courtroom a police station a fire station an amusement park in someone else’s apartment an aquarium a bakery a farm an animal sanctuary a basketball court a beach a bookstore a bowling alley a food court a campground a sleepaway camp a cemetery a department store a dance studio a dentist a dock an animal shelter/pound a city’s downtown area // they’re not called like that here, though a garden a forest/the woods a golf course a mini golf course a jewelry store a lake a mall a nursing home a pawn shop a pet store a pharmacy a playground a public pool a waterpark a prison/jail a homeless encampment Israel Mexico Arizona Hollywood Portland, OR

#survey #bolding survey #themed survey

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surveyhoursss · 4 years ago

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163.

Have you ever been to:

a coffee shop

a bar/pub

a restaurant

a convenience store/gas station store

a deli or small local supermarket

an icecream shop

a book shop

a thrift store

a movie rental store

a hair salon

a college or university campus

inside of a dorm building

a bank

a music store

a mobile phone store

a florist/flower shop

an electronics store

a cosmetics/hair/makeup store

a fast food restaurant

a laundromat

a drycleaner

a smoke shop

a shoe store

an optician/glasses store

the alamo [in Texas]

Atlantic City, NJ

the Big Ben

the Colosseum

the Dead Sea

Death Valley, NV

New York City, NY

Disney World

New Orleans, LA

Niagara Falls

Washington D.C.

Las Vegas, NV

Nashville, TN

San Antonio, TX

Seattle, WA

Mount Rushmore

Philadelphia, PA

Hawaii

Alaska

a public school

a museum

a hotel

a park

a hospital

someone else's house

a stadium

an airport

a train station

the Taj Mahal

Venice, Italy

Paris

San Francisco

Hong Kong

Stockholm

Rome

Sydney

a subway station

a gym

an art gallery

a theatre

a movie theater/cinema

a post office

a public library

a public parking garage

a coffee shop

a church

a synagogue

a mosque

a castle

a mansion

a zoo

a circus

a courtroom

a police station

a fire station

an amusement park

in someone else's apartment

an aquarium

a bakery

a farm

an animal sanctuary

a basketball court

a beach

a bookstore

a bowling alley

a food court

a campground

a sleepaway camp

a cemetery

a department store

a dance studio

a dentist

a dock

an animal shelter/pound

a city's downtown area

a garden

a forest/the woods

a golf course

a mini golf course

a jewelry store

a lake

a mall

a nursing home

a pawn shop

a pet store

a pharmacy

a playground

a public pool

a waterpark

a prison/jail

a homeless encampment

Israel

Mexico

Arizona

Hollywood

Portland, OR

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moultrie-creek-gazette · 4 years ago

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William Wing Loring

This imposing monument presides over the plaza to the west of Government House and overlooks the busiest intersection in downtown St. Augustine. In actuality, it's more than just a monument. It's also the grave of William Wing Loring, a man who served in three armies including as Pasha in the army of Egypt.

William Wing Loring via Florida Photographic Collection Born December 4, 1818 in Wilmington, North Carolina, William moved to St. Augustine with his parents in 1823 - just two years after Florida had become a United States territory. At the age of 14 he enlisted in the Florida Militia and fought in the early skirmishes of the Second Seminole War. He was promoted to lieutenant before he left the militia to finish his schooling in Virginia. After school, he passed the bar exam and spent some time as an attorney and even served in the state legislature from 1843 to 1845. He joined the Army and served in the Mexican War where he lost his arm during battle in Mexico City. In 1849 he took command of the Oregon Territory as part of the Mounted Rifles and served in the west until 1859. When the Civil War erupted, he resigned to join the Southern cause serving at Vicksburg, in Tennessee, North Georgia and in the campaign against Nashville. In 1865 he surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina shortly after Appomatox. A group of Confederate and Union veterans later served in the Egyptian army after being recommended to the Khedive of Egypt by none other than William Tecumseh Sherman. Loring served for nine years, attaining the rank of Fereek Pasha (Major General). On his return to the states, he wrote a book about his experiences titled A Confederate Soldier in Egypt (1884). He co-authored another book, The March of the Mounted Riflemen, which was published after his death. Upon his return from Egypt, Loring spent his time working on his book and traveling between his Florida home, New York and the western states. From a profile in the New York Times dated October 17, 1886: One evening I heard a fine looking old gentleman extolling the United States Government, and saying many kindly things of Lincoln and of Grant. I also noticed that he carried upon his right side an empty sleeve, which he at last alluded to indirectly by saying: “I lost one arm in the service of my country at the storming of the citadel of the city of Mexico, but I have another left which is always ready and loyal to do her bidding.” I then asked who the gentleman was, and I was informed that it was “old Billy himself”....There is no man more warmly embosomed in the hearts of Floridians than Gen. Loring. General Loring died in New York on December 30, 1886 from pneumonia. Robert Hawke tells the rest of the story in Florida's Army: Loring’s reinterment and public funeral in St. Augustine during March of 1887 was one of the grandest events in the city’s history for that decade. It was used as an occasion for a combined encampment, and week-long meeting, of the Union and Confederate veterans organizations of northeast Florida. Both groups, in conjunction with other local civic organizations, sponsored the erection of a memorial obelisk and monument, in Government House Square, inscribed with the details of Loring’s life and military service, and emblazoned with the flags of the United States, the Confederated States, and the Ottoman province of Egypt. It is a fine memorial to the local militiaman who became a pasha of Egypt.

South side of the Loring monument from the author's collection[/caption] References: • Hawk, Robert. Florida's Army: Militia, State Troops, National Guard, 1565-1985. Englewood, Fla: Pineapple Press, 1986. • William W. Loring. Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_wing_loring] • William Wing Loring. Civil War Home [http://www.civilwarhome.com/loringbio.htm] • Florida Photographic Collection. State Archives of Florida. [http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection]

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newstfionline · 11 months ago

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Friday, February 2, 2024

San Francisco’s addiction crisis (NYT) For some San Franciscans, a drug crisis is just part of city living. They see people shooting up in front of their homes and businesses. They often find someone dozing on a sidewalk, high. Sometimes, they check for a pulse. “That’s how I found my first dead body,” said Adam Mesnick, owner of a local deli. But the city’s drug crisis is relatively new. In 2018, San Francisco’s overdose death rate roughly matched the national average. Last year, its death rate was more than double the national level. San Francisco’s change is rooted in a broad effort to destigmatize addiction. Some experts and activists have argued that a less punitive and judgmental approach to drug use would help users get treatment—a “love the sinner, hate the sin” attitude. Over time, though, these efforts in liberal cities have expanded from users to drug use itself. Activists in San Francisco now refer to “body autonomy”—arguing that people have the right to put whatever they choose into their veins and lungs. They no longer want to hate the sin. They say it’s no one’s business but the drug user’s.

One Big Reason Migrants Are Coming in Droves: They Believe They Can Stay (NYT) For decades, single young men, mainly from Mexico and later Central America, did their best to sneak past U.S. border agents to reach Los Angeles, Atlanta and other places hungry for their labor. Today, people from around the globe are streaming across the southern border, most of them just as eager to work. But rather than trying to elude U.S. authorities, the overwhelming majority of migrants seek out border agents, sometimes waiting hours or days in makeshift encampments, to surrender. Being hustled into a U.S. Border Patrol vehicle and taken to a processing facility is hardly a setback. In fact, it is a crucial step toward being able to apply for asylum—now the surest way for migrants to stay in the United States. Cases languish for years in underfunded courts while migrants receive work permits and build lives, and while few win their cases, most are unlikely to be deported.

Secret US spying program targeted top Venezuelan officials, flouting international law (AP) A secret memo obtained by The Associated Press details a yearslong covert operation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that sent undercover operatives into Venezuela to surreptitiously record and build drug-trafficking cases against the country’s leadership—a plan the U.S. acknowledged from the start was arguably a violation of international law. “It is necessary to conduct this operation unilaterally and without notifying Venezuelan officials,” reads the 15-page 2018 memo expanding “Operation Money Badger,” an investigation that authorities say targeted dozens of people, including Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. While there’s no clear mechanism to hold the United States accountable legally, the revelation threatens to roil already fraught relations with Maduro’s socialist government and could deepen resentment of the U.S. across Latin America over perceived meddling. It also offers a rare window into the lengths the DEA was willing to go to fight the drug war in a country that banned U.S. drug agents nearly two decades ago.

Farmers set fires and attack barriers near EU summit as anger spreads (Reuters) Farmers threw eggs and stones at the European Parliament on Thursday, starting fires near the building and setting off fireworks amid protests to press a summit of European Union leaders to do more to help them with taxes and rising costs. Small groups tried to tear down the barriers erected in front of parliament—a few blocks from where the summit was taking place—but police fired tear gas and sprayed water at the farmers with hoses to push them back. A statue on the square was damaged and major thoroughfares in Brussels were blocked by around 1,300 tractors, according to a police estimate. Security personnel in riot gear stood guard behind barriers where the leaders were meeting at European Council headquarters. Farmers from Italy, Spain and other European countries took part in the demonstration in Brussels, as well as continuing their protests at home. Farmers say they are not being paid enough, are choked by taxes and green rules and face unfair competition from abroad.

Thai Court Rules Progressive Party’s Reform Push Violated Constitution (NYT) The most popular political party in Thailand won its following last year, and the ire of the conservative establishment, by campaigning to end military rule and to weaken the draconian law that prohibits criticism of the country’s monarchy. But on Wednesday the Move Forward Party and its push for change were dealt a severe blow. Thailand’s Constitutional Court ruled that the party’s proposal to scale back the royal defamation law violated the Constitution because it was an attempt to overthrow the monarchy. It ordered Move Forward to stop all activities related to amending the law. The verdict, in effect, lays out explicitly that the royal defamation law is sacrosanct for Thailand’s conservative establishment, a nexus of royalists, military officials and wealthy elites. Their motives were already clear last year, when they moved quickly to block Move Forward’s leader, Pita Limjaroenrat, from becoming prime minister, pushed the party into the opposition even though it won the general election and installed a coalition of allies into power. Wednesday’s ruling leaves Move Forward vulnerable to more legal challenges, which could pave the way for its eventual disbandment. It could also set the stage for a showdown between Thailand’s progressive opposition and the establishment.

Out of options, Rohingya are fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh by boat despite soaring death toll (AP) Across a treacherous stretch of water, the Rohingya came by the thousands, then died by the hundreds. And though they know the dangers of fleeing by boat, many among this persecuted people say they will not stop—because the world has left them with no other choice. Last year, nearly 4,500 Rohingya—two-thirds of them women and children—fled their homeland of Myanmar and the refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh by boat, the United Nations’ refugee agency reported. Of those, 569 died or went missing while crossing the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, the highest death toll since 2014. The numbers mean one out of every eight Rohingya who attempted the crossing never made it, the UNHCR said last week. Inside the squalid refugee camps in Bangladesh, where more than 750,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims fled in 2017 following sweeping attacks by Myanmar’s military, the situation has grown increasingly desperate. Not even the threat of death at sea is enough to stop many from trying to traverse the region’s waters in a bid to reach Indonesia or Malaysia. Global indifference toward the Rohingya crisis has left those languishing in the overcrowded camps with few alternatives to fleeing. Because Bangladesh bans the Rohingya from working, their survival is dependent upon food rations, which were slashed last year due to a drop in global donations.

China’s Censorship Dragnet Targets Critics of the Economy (NYT) China’s top intelligence agency issued an ominous warning last month about an emerging threat to the country’s national security: Chinese people who criticize the economy. In a series of posts on its official WeChat account, the Ministry of State Security implored citizens to grasp President Xi Jinping’s economic vision and not be swayed by those who sought to “denigrate China’s economy” through “false narratives.” To combat this risk, the ministry said, security agencies will focus on “strengthening economic propaganda and public opinion guidance.” China is intensifying its crackdown while struggling to reclaim the dynamism and rapid economic growth of the past. Beijing has censored and tried to intimidate renowned economists, financial analysts, investment banks and social media influencers for bearish assessments of the economy and the government’s policies. In addition, news articles about people experiencing financial struggles or the poor living standards for migrant workers are being removed. In November, the state security ministry, calling itself “staunch guardians of financial security,” said other countries used finance as a weapon in geopolitical games.

Japan will no longer require floppy disks for submitting some official documents (Engadget) Japan is an innovative country that leads the way on many technological fronts. But the wheels of bureaucracy often turn incredibly slowly there. So much so, that the government still requires businesses to provide information on floppy disks and CD-ROMs when they submit certain official documents. That’s starting to change. Back in 2022, Minister of Digital Affairs Taro Kono urged various branches of the government to stop requiring businesses to submit information on outdated forms of physical media. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is one of the first to make the switch. After this calendar year, METI will no longer require businesses to submit data on floppy disks under 34 ordinances. The same goes for CD-ROMs when it comes to an unspecified number of procedures. There’s still quite some way to go before businesses can stop using either format entirely, however. Kono’s staff identified some 1,900 protocols across several government departments that still require the likes of floppy disks, CD-ROMs and even MiniDiscs.

Egypt-Israel ties in jeopardy over intensifying Gaza border dispute (Washington Post) Officials in Jerusalem are signaling what could be a central, and politically perilous, aim of the war’s next phase: Taking control of the border crossing with Egypt. “The southern stoppage point [of Gaza]—must be in our hands. It must be shut,” Netanyahu said in December, referring to a buffer road along the border. “Any other arrangement would not ensure the demilitarization that we seek.” But the idea of Israeli troops returning to the border has set off alarm bells in Cairo, which says such a move would risk undermining the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty.

Injured, hungry and alone—the Gazan children orphaned by war (BBC) Born amid the horrors of the war in Gaza, the month-old baby girl lying in an incubator has never known a parent’s embrace. She was delivered by Caesarean section after her mother, Hanna, was crushed in an Israeli air strike. Hanna did not live to name her daughter. “We just call her the daughter of Hanna Abu Amsha,” says nurse Warda al-Awawda, who is caring for the tiny newborn at the al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. In the chaos caused by the ongoing fighting and with entire families almost wiped out, medics and rescuers often struggle to find carers for bereaved children. Children, who make up nearly half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million, have had their lives shattered by the brutal war. Although Israel says it strives to avoid civilian casualties, including issuing evacuation orders, more than 11,500 under-18s have been killed according to Palestinian health officials. Even more have injuries, many of them life-changing. It is hard to get accurate figures but according to a recent report from Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, a non-profit group, more than 24,000 children have also lost one or both parents.

UNRWA funding pauses comes amid uncertainty over Gaza aid future (Washington Post) The United States and its allies are suspending funding to a U.N. agency at a critical moment for Gaza. Before the war, roughly 80 percent of the population of the strip was reliant on international aid. Following months of conflict, the needs are only more dire, with almost 9 out of 10 people displaced and at least half of the buildings in the strip damaged or destroyed. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, played a vital role in distributing international aid to Gaza during the war. But after Israel alleged that more than a dozen UNRWA staff members were involved in the Hamas-led attacks on Israeli towns on Oct. 7, the United States and at least nine other donor countries have paused their funding pending further investigation. Critics of the move say it will only add to the humanitarian disaster in Gaza. The dispute about UNRWA funding comes amid a growing debate about who should pay for Gaza as the cost of the conflict soars. In a report released Wednesday, U.N. experts on economic development wrote that there is “no doubt” that returning Gaza to its pre-war state would require “several tens of billions of dollars by any conservative estimation.” Current pledges from donor states would be many times below that.

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New top story from Time: Many Asylum Seekers in Mexico Can’t Get U.S. Court Hearings Until 2021. A Coronavirus Outbreak Could ‘Devastate’ Them

On the morning of May 6, a Brazilian mother got her family ready to leave the shelter they’ve been staying at for three months in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, to present themselves at the border as is required for those seeking asylum. Two of her children are physically disabled—a 1-year-old girl with congenital hydrocephalus, a brain disorder, and a 2-year-old boy who has suffered brain damage as a result of being born prematurely. She says they need urgent and constant medical care, which is not available at the shelter.

Without masks or other protection, they made their way to a port of entry connecting Juárez to El Paso to speak with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). However, the pandemic means that instead of meeting with a judge, she was presented with a delayed court date.

“We’re sleeping on the floor with the children in a hall, so it’s really hard,” the mother tells TIME through an interpreter, and asked that her identity and specific location be kept private as she has concerns about the family’s safety.

Given that the delay could have serious implications for her children with health conditions, the mother asked that she and her family be exempt from the Trump Administration’s Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP)—also known as the Remain in Mexico policy—and allowed to enter the U.S. while waiting for their court hearing. According to CBP’s MPP guidelines, “vulnerable” asylum seekers with known “physical/mental health issues” should be exempt from the policy. Lawyers for the mother provided medical records and letters written by American physicians who had reviewed those records.

“Both of [the mother’s] children are at risk of serious health consequences or even death without access to proper and advanced medical care,” wrote Dr. Bonnie Arzuaga, one of the physicians who reviewed the children’s medical records, in a letter to CBP seen by TIME. “Additionally, living in a crowded shelter puts these medically fragile children at risk for serious illness from infectious diseases, including COVID-19.”

Ultimately, CBP denied the mother’s requests, and she and her family were back in the Juárez shelter by the end of the day. “The only thing that we can do is just wait,” the mother says. “All I can do is just pray.”

Fred RamosA member of the Global Responses Management medical team in the Matamoros camp on April 24. “Social distancing and quarantine in refugee situations is nearly impossible,” says Helen Perry, an acute care nurse practitioner and executive director of GRM.

The family is among approximately 20,000 asylum seekers with pending cases under the MPP program, according to recent estimates from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. Asylum seekers who made their way to the U.S. were sent back to Mexico to wait for court hearings to decide on their requests for asylum. Due to COVID-19, MPP hearings have been suspended until at least June 8, which has caused a further backlog in court proceedings. Many of those waiting along Mexico’s northern border with the U.S. not only face delays, but also live in cramped and unsanitary conditions, potentially exposing them to a greater danger of COVID-19. There is also a lack of testing in Mexico.

Public health officials in both Juárez and Matamoros did not immediately respond to TIME’s requests for comment on conditions for migrants.

While the Brazilian mother has her next court date tentatively set for July 14, 2020, many have had their dates pushed back even further as a result of the COVID-19 suspension, until 2021 in some cases. El Paso-based lawyer Taylor Levy tells TIME she has met several asylum seekers whose court dates have been pushed back until April 2021. One man from Venezuela, for example, would have had his final asylum hearing on May 6. Instead, he now has to wait until April 21, 2021.

“He was pretty devastated,” says Levy, who most days stands at the Paso del Norte port of entry ready to speak to asylum seekers as they present themselves to Border Patrol. She also provides donated goods to them, including face masks and hand sanitizer. “He didn’t necessarily think he was going to wait the year, he didn’t know what he was going to do.”

Fred RamosDinner at the migrant camp in Matamoros on April 25. “Bathrooms are communal, kitchens are communal, sinks are communal,” says Perry, of GRM. “So it’s incredibly difficult.”

In the city of Matamoros, Mexico, just across the border from Brownsville, Texas, roughly 2,500 asylum seekers await their court dates living on a muddy strip of land the size of two football fields on the banks of the Rio Grande. Among them is Perla, an asylum seeker from Nicaragua, who, along with her daughter and grandchildren, has been living in the camp for nine months while they wait to have their asylum case heard. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, their court date has been pushed back to July. Perla asked not to be identified by her full name after expressing concern for her and her family’s safety.

The family, like the other asylum seekers in the camp, face potential exposure to the coronavirus, which could spread like wildfire in the cramped conditions. Perla was a pharmacist in Nicaragua before she and her family fled violence that broke out under the administration of President Daniel Ortega, which she says resulted in her cousin being killed. She now works with a medical non-governmental organization (NGO) at the encampment to help try to prevent an outbreak of COVID-19, but if the virus does make its way into the camp, “it’ll be in God’s hands,” she says in Spanish.

Dr. Dairon Elisondo Rojas, a doctor from Cuba who is waiting for his asylum case to be heard, has been working with Perla and a team of volunteer health care workers from Global Response Management (GRM), an international medical NGO with a medical unit at the center of camp, to put in place protective measures to try to prevent an outbreak, something Elisondo says would “devastate” the camp if it arrived.

“All of these measures we’ve come up with, they were created in the context of the people who live in overcrowded conditions, people who live in unhygienic and unsanitary conditions,” Elisondo tells TIME in Spanish. “That’s what makes this plan of action unique.”

Fred Ramos—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesA burial at a newly dug grave at the Municipal Cemetery No. 13 in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 12. Experts say Mexico’s COVID-19 case count and death toll have been underreported.

Everyone is instructed to sleep head-to-toe in tents that are open or have vents they can open, which they hope will limit the respiratory droplets they’re exposed to at night, Elisondo says. The team has created a hotline for people to call if they start to display symptoms, and have passed out vitamins in an effort to boost immune systems. They’ve also installed 40 additional sinks for hand washing and are making their own hand sanitizer.

However, despite their best efforts, since March 12, 19 people have presented with some combination of cough, fever, fatigue, muscle aches, abdominal pain—all symptoms of COVID-19. Most have been isolated at a sectioned-off part of camp, where they have access to their own bathroom setup. Others, with more serious symptoms, were removed to hotels. One man, for example, who had severe diarrhea, was vomiting and had a fever, was placed in a hotel to quarantine.

Seventeen of the asylum seekers have so far completed their quarantines and returned to the camp, but two patients who are showing symptoms, including one child, remain in isolation and are awaiting the results of testing by Matamoros health officials.

In general, the asylum seekers are concerned for their safety, Helen Perry, an acute care nurse practitioner and executive director of GRM, tells TIME. “Social distancing and quarantine in refugee situations is nearly impossible,” she says. “Bathrooms are communal, kitchens are communal, sinks are communal. So it’s incredibly difficult.”

Fred Ramos—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesA family wearing protective masks mourns during the burial of a relative who died from coronavirus at Municipal Cemetery No. 13 in Tijuana, Mexico, on May 12.

But without widespread access to testing, it’s impossible to know if the virus has officially arrived. It’s the public health officials who determine who can receive a COVID-19 test, Perry says. Officials have so far tested eight people at the camp, and have only shared the results of one person, whose test came back negative. The two people who are currently in isolation were tested by public health officials on Tuesday, Perry says, but she’s unsure if she’ll ever know the results.

Experts say across Mexico the COVID-19 case count and death toll have been underreported. State officials in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, where Matamoros is located, have reported 917 COVID-19 cases as of Thursday morning, and 56 deaths. The city of Matamoros has the highest case count and death toll in the state, with 205 cases and 16 deaths as of May 14. The actual case and death count could be higher, as Mexico ranks last for testing out of all countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). According to OECD, Mexico is only testing 0.6 people for every 1,000.

“With Mexico, as with many other countries around the world, their public health system, their public health infrastructure is very poor,” Perry says. “For us, it’s been very hit or miss whether we’ve been able to get our patients tested or not. But it would absolutely not surprise me to find out that the death toll [in the city of Matamoros] is much higher than what’s really known.”

Fred RamosA girl plays in the migrant camp in Matamoros, Mexico, on April 23. The city has the highest case count and death toll in the state.

To make due amid a lack of local COVID-19 testing, GRM says it has started to utilize thousands of antibody tests transported from the U.S. to use as a screening tool. Although there is widespread concern many of the tests might be flawed, GRM says these rapid detection tests can help the health care workers determine if someone was potentially exposed to the virus. “That’s the agreement we’ve come up with, with the public health department in Matamoros,” Perry says. “So we’re not using it to predict immunity or to predict who is safe to go out and about in public.”

Additionally, some shelters, including the one in Juárez where the mother from Brazil is staying, have implemented rules to try and prevent an outbreak. People are only allowed to leave if they have a court date — and if they do decide to leave they risk losing their spot at that shelter.

Other Juárez shelters — there are about 20 of them — have started to reduce their capacity to help with social distancing, Levy says. Most shelters have not been accepting new residents for several weeks, and personal protective equipment is limited.

“The shelters are incredibly dedicated in terms of doing everything that’s within the realm possible to try and prevent contagion,” she says. “But they’re still very limited.”

via https://cutslicedanddiced.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/how-to-prevent-food-from-going-to-waste

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Mobile Information: About Joseph

Contains Spoilers for part 2, 3, and 4.

basics

full name: Joseph Joestar

gender: cis male

sexuality: Polyamorous Bisexual

age: 18 in main verse

birthday: September 29th, 1924.

physical

hair: brunette, cut sloppily and often drooping into his face and sticking up at odd angles.

eyes: Green

height: 6'4" or 195 cms

weight: 213 lbs or 97 kg

body structure: tall and toned but still pretty lithe compared to his other family members. Broad chest and shoulders but narrows from the waist down.

posture: Being raised by a well-off family, Joseph has learned how to carry himself confidently. He often stands with his shoulders squared and back. Eventually he begins to slouch as his legs begin to get weaker as he ages and he relies on a cane.

distinguishing features: In any of his verses post part 2, Joseph is missing his left hand, which has been replaced with a prosthetic. He does have some various scars left from fights throughout the events of his life, though his hand is what’s most immediately noticable. Star shaped birthmark on his left shoulder.

mental

Joseph Joestar is anti-authoritarian at his root. He doesn’t respect the authority of anyone unless they prove they deserve it, regardless of that person is an actual legal authority or just someone who has some kind of social authority. There is one exception to this, and that’s his Granny Erina, because he is 100% an grandma’s boy. Being raised by his grandmother and Mr.Speedwagon, Joseph got away with a lot more than he probably should have, and he’s always been a bit of a goofball.

It’s easy to underestimate him because he comes off as something of a dunce, but when push comes to shove, Joseph is very quick witted. What he lacks in booksmarts, he makes up for in street smarts and the ability to improvise.

Growing up, he heard many stories of how great of a man Jonathan Joestar was from his grandmother, and Joseph has always aspired to have even a fraction of his inherent sense of justice.

The problem is that… well, Joseph is a bit of a do-nothing. If he can get away without having to do hard work, he will always opt to take the easier way when he can. He figures, so long as nobody else gets hurt because of his sloth-like tendencies, then there’s nothing wrong with that, right? Besides, he’d much rather focus on being funny and having a good time in life rather than being the sort of person who runs themselves into the ground trying to overwork themselves.

As most of the Joestar family is wont to do, Joseph often finds himself in far, far over his head in situations. He approaches them with the desire to “just make it through”– if he can make it through and have everyone be safe, he’s happy. It’s what helps to get him through some of the worst situations. On a deeper level, he knows that even if he can’t make it through something, so long as the people he cares about are safe that life will go on.

biography

Joseph is the child of George Joestar II and Elizabeth Joestar, though was raised by his grandmother, Erina Joestar, after a tragic event– the details of which Joseph was unaware but he believed both of his own parents to be dead. (The truth of the matter was kept mum in attempts to keep him safe from the truth of the stone mask.)

He lived a relatively normal life, except for one thing– his ability to do hamon. It’s something he has been capable of since he was a young boy. Otherwise, all was well until Straizo hunted him down in New York shortly after his 18th birthday. Hearing the troubling news of Speedwagon’s apparent discovery in Mexico, Joseph goes to retrieve his other guardian and seek answers from him.

It requires jumping through some hoops, but Joseph pieces together that Speedwagon is being held at a Nazi encampment in Mexico and he infiltrated the base in time to find himself right in the middle of the Nazi’s failed experiment attempting to find information on Santana.

Joseph and Speedwagon survived the ordeal, but they quickly realized that they were in the middle of something deeply troubling. Speedwagon, deciding that Joseph would be of help after dealing with Santana in Mexico, decided to introduce Joseph to a contact in Italy where he’s aware of other pillarmen being present. Though Joseph and Caesar don’t get along very well to begin with, they are brought together when they come face-to-face with the three Pillar men and Joseph is narrowly spared death in the face of the antediluvians after being given the condition that he improve his hamon and has a rematch with them to stop a slowly dissolving poison placed around his throat and heart.

He eventually manages to defeat them, though it isn’t without it’s losses, both of life and bodily.

Eventually, after settling down and marrying Suzie Q, Joseph fathers a daughter named Holly.

After his daughter grew up and married, Joseph accidentally fathered a child with a woman he’d slept with during a visit to Japan named Josuke Higashikata.

His normal life is interrupted again when his stand manifests for the first time out of the blue. With the aid of the Speedwagon Foundation and a kind man named Avdol, he’s able to figure out that it’s manifestation was caused by Dio Brando, the same man who cost his grandmother and grandfather the happy life they deserved. It is from a troubling call shortly thereafter that Joseph learns that it appears his grandson has manifested one as well. Concerned, he flies to Japan, and his fear is quickly proven to be well-placed as Holly collapses not long after, being slowly weakened by a stand of her own that she is unable to control. Unbeknownst to Joseph, his bastard son is afflicted by the illness as well.

With no other choice, Joseph and his grandson, Jotaro Kujo embark on a journey to find Dio and end his life to ensure the survival of Holly. They succeed, though, again, not without loss.

His life again returns to relative normalcy until his affair is found out and Suzie was furious with him. (Whether it was because of his infidelity or because he abandoned a twenty year old woman all alone to raise a son by herself is up for debate.) While his stand isn’t of much help, and his mind is starting to go, he still visits Japan to assist in the search for the Arrows. He finds a shaky ground to stand on with Josuke, and is rather relieved to see he’s growing into a fine young man despite his absence. (Arguably a better one than Joseph thinks he could have become under his guidance, anyway.)

verses

Main Verse - Set concurrent to part 2, before the defeat of Kars but after receiving the rings.

Verse || Take your chances win or lose - Concurrent to Stardust Crusaders, after Holly’s stand manifests but before the defeat of Dio.

Verse || I’m more concerned for what you’ll leave if you stay - Set post Stardust Crusaders

#OOC || Break time!#mobile info;;#Joseph || God you're such a narcissist you might as well be dancing with yourself #Verse || Take your chances win or lose #Verse || I'm more concerned for what you'll leave if you stay

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Trump’s War on Asylum-Seekers is Endangering Pregnant Women CBP officers are forcibly returning pregnant asylum-seekers to Mexico in violation of their own rules.

The view from the Matamoros, Mexico side of the Rio Grande — just across from Brownsville, Texas — reveals an unsettling scene.

Young women and children bathe openly in the murky green water, while others wash their clothes on the bank of the river that has claimed so many lives – most recently those of Idalia and her 21-month-old son Iker. This is the new painful reality of seeking asylum in the United States.

These families are not at the river by choice. They are being forced to wait in perilous conditions as a result of the Trump administration’s forced return to Mexico policy, which it perversely calls the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP).

Under the policy, which the ACLU and partners are challenging in a federal lawsuit, people fleeing persecution and legally seeking asylum in the U.S. are forced to wait in Mexico for months on end while their cases proceed in U.S. immigration courts. The Trump administration wants people to think that the policy is benign, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Since going into effect earlier this year, MPP has been actively putting the lives of asylum-seekers in grave danger. For the most vulnerable people, including pregnant women, young children, and babies, this danger is particularly acute.

Women, children, and men bathing on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, just across from Brownsville, Texas.

Recently, an 18-year-old Ecuadoran woman named Carolina,* who is more than four months pregnant, was sent to Mexico for a second time after attempting to legally claim asylum in the U.S. She was immediately placed into MPP and returned to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, a city which according to the U.S. State Department is as dangerous as Afghanistan or Syria. A foreigner to Mexico, she had no safe place to go or community to which to turn. Alone, pregnant, and vulnerable, she was kidnapped and threatened with being sold or killed unless her family paid a ransom.

Carolina was eventually released by her kidnappers. Traumatized, she again returned to the international bridge in Laredo, Texas seeking safety that she believed only the U.S. could provide. But the kidnapping and fear of death was not enough for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents. They instead sent her to the same city where she had been kidnapped, failing even to refer her to an asylum officer to have her fear of returning to Mexico evaluated.

In Mexico, Carolina fearfully stayed close to the gates of the port of entry, terrified that local cartel scouts were waiting to kidnap her again. Thankfully, Carolina’s family had contacted advocates who tried to get her released from MPP. They were unsuccessful, but were able to help Carolina flee to Mexico City for safety. There, she is currently waiting for her next immigration court date — set to occur in an ad hoc “tent court” in Laredo, Texas — hundreds of miles from Mexico City and just across the river from where she almost lost her life.

Hundreds of heartbreaking stories, just like Carolina’s, began to surface immediately after this policy went into effect in January 2019, and more so after the rapid expansion of the policy to Laredo and Brownsville, Texas in July. Nearly 50,000 people have been placed into MPP so far. One woman interviewed by attorneys described a CBP officer telling her she should abort her unborn child because “Trump didn’t want any more pregnant people here.”

A young pregnant mother holds her toddler in a makeshift migrant encampment created to house asylum seekers sent back to Mexico as a result of the “Remain in Mexico” policy.

MPP is part of a consistent pattern of xenophobic and racist efforts by the Trump administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to prevent people from lawfully being granted asylum in the U.S. Instead of welcoming asylum-seekers, as the U.S. has successfully done for decades, the Trump administration has engaged in a campaign of misinformation to provide cover for unlawful policies against people fleeing persecution.

This inhumane policy is not aimed at any national security interest or protecting us from serious criminals; it’s an attempt to make it nearly impossible for anyone, no matter what terror they’re fleeing from, to enter into the U.S.

MPP’s impact has been made even worse due to how federal agents are executing it. DHS is well aware that there are populations with special needs that should be exempt from MPP. In fact, it has written guidelines that outline the exemption of vulnerable people — specifically pregnant women — from being forced back into Mexico.

And while DHS knows that northern Mexican border cities are incredibly unsafe, particularly for migrants and asylum-seekers who are unable to defend themselves from being victimized, it continues to send the most vulnerable back to danger. In fact, it has been well documented that asylum-seekers subjected to MPP have faced rape, kidnapping, assault, extortion, and death after being forced to return to Mexico

The policy has also forced migrants and asylum-seekers to live in squalid conditions without access to proper housing, food, or sanitation. This has caused outrage in the medical community. Physicians for Human Rights has publicly warned that the health and lives of mothers and babies are at risk due to grossly unhygienic living conditions, insufficient nutrition, lack of medical care, and inadequate access to potable water at makeshift encampments of people forced into MPP.

The safety and health conditions that pregnant women are forced to endure while languishing in Mexico are abhorrent and unacceptable. And it is happening right at our doorstep.

That is why the ACLU of Texas and ACLU Border Rights Center interviewed 18 pregnant women, including Carolina, and filed an official complaint with the DHS Office of Inspector General, demanding a return to safety inside the U.S. for all pregnant women in MPP.

Each of the women listed in the complaint have their own harrowing story of legally seeking refuge in the United States, and instead being cruelly denied protection and sent to Mexico without any regard for their safety.

MPP must end. Every day it is in effect, lives are in imminent risk. In the meantime, the special exemptions for pregnant women and other vulnerable groups must be followed by U.S. immigration authorities. Because what happens along the Rio Grande and the entire borderlands reflects on the conscience of our entire nation.

*Carolina is a pseudonym used to protect the asylum seeker from reprisals.

Published October 3, 2019 at 09:15PM via ACLU https://ift.tt/2VgCelB

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Trump’s War on Asylum-Seekers is Endangering Pregnant Women

CBP officers are forcibly returning pregnant asylum-seekers to Mexico in violation of their own rules.

The view from the Matamoros, Mexico side of the Rio Grande — just across from Brownsville, Texas — reveals an unsettling scene.

Women, children, and men bathing on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, just across from Brownsville, Texas.

A young pregnant mother holds her toddler in a makeshift migrant encampment created to house asylum seekers sent back to Mexico as a result of the “Remain in Mexico” policy.

The safety and health conditions that pregnant women are forced to endure while languishing in Mexico are abhorrent and unacceptable. And it is happening right at our doorstep.

*Carolina is a pseudonym used to protect the asylum seeker from reprisals.

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losdespojados · 7 years ago

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On Jan. 17, 2017, Sebastian Alonso Juan joined a nonviolent community demonstration against Promoción y Desarrollos Hídricos (PDH), S.A, the Guatemalan subsidiary of an international company behind the construction of three controversial hydroelectric projects, Pojom I, Pojom II, and San Andres. Juan died after suffering gunshot and machete wounds when armed men opened fire into the crowd of peaceful protesters, who were under the watch of police and private security forces hired by PDH S.A. But this violence is not new for Ixquisis residents. Located in Huehuetenango near the border with Mexico, these Chuj, Q’anjob’al, Akateco, and Mestizo communities live in isolation from basic state services such as education, medical services, and electricity. Today, some of the only clear state presence are the military and police forces. [...]

These military bases have ignited fears of resurging repression tactics seen during the internal armed conflict, including armed night patrols, threats of sexualized violence, kidnapping, and intimidation aimed at silencing local organizing. The Minister of Defense claim that the new military and police encampments aim to reestablish peace in the area, but the fact that both these bases are located on PDH S.A.’s private property casts doubt on the official claims.

Read full story by Zia Kandler at Upside Down World.

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From the Ashes of Standing Rock, a Beautiful Resistance is Born

Earth First! Journal | IT'S GOING DOWN | March 15th 2017

The post From the Ashes of Standing Rock, a Beautiful Resistance is Born appeared first on IT'S GOING DOWN.

If you’re like me, you are probably feeling a deep sorrow in your heart over the news that oil will soon flow through that black snake of death, the Dakota Access Pipeline. Despite the largest gathering of tribes in over 100 years, despite the prayers and militant resistance, despite hundreds of water protectors facing trumped up felony charges, despite the occupations, blockades, lockdowns and sabotage; DAPL has prevailed. It is true, we lost the battle of Standing Rock, but there are signs that we are winning the war on fossil fuel infrastructure.

In the past year, as the resistance at Standing Rock grew from a trickle to a flood, at least seven new oil and gas pipelines have been defeated. These include: ...

Pinion Pipeline – NM; Sandpiper Pipeline – MN; Enbridge Line 5 – WI, MI*; Northern Gateway Pipeline – Canada; Northeast Energy Direct – New England; Palmetto Pipeline – GA, SC; Constitution Pipeline – PA, NY. Many of these pipelines were defeated when, seeing the massive resistance at Standing Rock, companies simply withdrew their applications citing “market forces”. What is left unsaid in the corporate press releases is that our resistance to new energy infrastructure is now a major market force.

In addition to these victories, the past couple years have seen communities up and down the west coast defeat seven out of eight proposed coal export terminals and four proposed oil export terminals aimed at shipping Bakken crude from North Dakota to international markets.

It is important to understand that the fossil fuel industry needs these new infrastructure projects in order to expand. Without them they cannot. While it should have been clear under the Obama administration that the US government was never going to commit to any meaningful greenhouse gas reductions (the US became the #1 producer of oil and gas in the world on Obama’s watch), nobody is under any illusion of the government reigning in emissions under the Trump regime. It is plain to see that our only hope in defeating the fossil fuel industry will not be through government action, but concerted direct action campaigns against these fossil fuel projects.

Standing Rock was not the beginning, and it is certainly not the end

As we lick our wounds, mourn the loss, and continue to support those facing charges, we can find inspiration in the incredible spirit of resistance unleashed by the uprising. While a global divestment campaign has been hitting banks with occupations and blockades, and withdrawing billions of dollars from these fossil fuel funders; a wave of direct action encampments have blossomed in the paths of destructive infrastructure projects across Turtle Island.

Two Rivers Camp – Trans Pecos Pipeline, TX

The Society of Native Nations launched the Two Rivers Camp at the end of Dec. 2016 to fight Energy Transfer Partners Trans Pecos Pipeline which would transport fracked gas from Texas shale fields, through the beautiful Big Bend region, to Mexico where it would be exported on the international market. The camp, which includes support from the Jumano, Apache and Conchos People, has engaged in a series of successful actions to disrupt construction of the pipeline.

Sabal Trail Resistance – Sabal Trail Pipeline, FL

Sabal Trail Resistance has engaged in a series of direct actions to stop the Sabal Trail project, a 500 mile project by Spectra Energy and Duke Energy to ship gas from Alabama to south Florida. The pipeline has seen strong resistance from members of the Seminole tribe as well as residents and environmentalists living along the route. There have been multiple acts of civil disobedience, including a mass action in January in which 1000 people gathered to shut down pipeline construction under the Suwannee River. Also just last week a lone pipeline resister was killed by police after fleeing the scene of an effective sabotage action against the pipeline. In addition to the ongoing actions of STR, folks in Dunellon, FL have opened up the Water is Life campaign house to serve as a base for anti-pipeline organizing.

Arkansas Rising – Diamond Pipeline

The Diamond Pipeline would carry oil from eastern Oklahoma to a refinery in West Memphis, Arkansas. In response Arkansas Rising has shut down pipeline construction with direct actions and most recently blockaded the West Memphis oil refinery that would receive the oil. They don’t have a permanent encampment but you stay up to date on their actions here.

Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp – Pilgrim Pipeline, NJ

Members of the Ramapough-Lunaape Tribe have set up a prayer camp in the path of the aptly named Pilgrim Pipeline. This pipeline would bring Bakken crude oil from Albany to the Bayway refinery in New Jersey. A second parallel pipeline would ship refined petroleum products back north. In addition to their encampment, tribal members recently finished an eight day prayer walk to draw attention to the pipeline.

Mountain Valley Pipeline – WV, VA

From the get go, resistance to this fracked gas pipeline has been strong. Counties such as Floyd, VA have organized such strong resistance that the pipeline company decided to reroute construction around them. Most recently activists organized a direct action training attended by over 100 people including many landowners living on the path of the pipeline. Activists have tentative plans for a week long action camp in June to continue building the resistance.

Bayou Bridge Pipeline- LA

This 163 mile long pipeline would cut through the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest riverine swamp in the US, to bring petroleum to refineries in St James Parish, LA. This pipeline, brought to you by Energy Transfer Partners, the same company behind DAPL, has already faced stiff resistance from Louisiana residents. Members of the Houma Tribe, the Louisiana Bucket Brigades and other concerned citizens have turned out hundreds of people to rowdy public hearings on the pipeline, where government officials have been booed and shouted down. Many activists have said they are ready to start an encampment if and when construction starts.

Coalition of Woodland Nations – Atlantic Coast Pipeline – WV, VA, NC

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline, backed by Duke Energy, Dominion Resources, and Southern Company seeks to bring fracked gas from the Marcellus shale into Virginia and the Carolinas to fuel a new wave of gas power plants. North Carolina Alliance to Protect Our People And The Places We Live (APPPL) and the Coalition of Woodland Nations have recently teamed up on a two week long march following the route of the ACP through North Carolina to raise awareness and build a network of resistance to this pipeline. In addition to the walk many landowners are refusing to allow their land to be surveyed and some are vowing to engage in civil disobedience to keep the bulldozers off their land.

Apache Stronghold – Resolution Copper Mine – AZ

For the past few years members of the Apache tribe have been occupying an area known as Oak Flats in order to prevent a new copper mine from being built on their traditional sacred land. Thanks to the Sen. John McCain, this land, which was relatively protected under the control of the Forest Service, was given to Resolution Copper by sneaking a rider into a Defense Authorization Bill. The occupation, under the name Apache Stronghold, is still ongoing and vows to stay until the project is defeated.

Lancaster Stand – Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline – PA

This February, residents of Lancaster County announced the launch of Lancaster Stand, a protest encampment built directly in the path of the Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline. This pipeline would carry fracked gas out of PA and send most of it to the controversial Cove Point LNG export terminal in Maryland. So far the camp is holding strong and encouraging others to join them.

Unist’ot’en Camp – Pacific Trails Pipeline, BC, Canada

Long before the Standing Rock uprising caught the world’s attention, members of the Unist’ot’en tribe along with other First Nations people set up an encampment on their traditional territories to block the Northern Gateway pipeline. The camp, now in its eighth year has been instrumental in beating that pipeline and is now fighting the Pacific Trails Pipeline. The PTP would deliver gas from Summit Lake, BC to a proposed LNG export terminal in Kitimat, BC. In addition to blocking the pipelines, the Unist’ot’en Camp serves as a reclamation of their traditional territories where they can practice and strengthen their traditional skills and customs.

Madii Lii Camp – Prince Rupert Natural Gas Pipeline, BC Canada

Members of the Gitxsan Nation have erected a camp to fight the PRNGP and accompanying LNG export terminal. The pipeline and export terminal threaten their traditional territory and vital salmon runs which the First Nations people have relied on for countless generations. Like the Unist’ot’en they are using their camp as both a base of resistance as well as a space to pass on their traditions to the next generation.

Lelu Island fighting the proposed Petronas LNG Plant, BC Canada

In response to a proposed $11 billion LNG export facility on their traditional territories, members of the Lax’walams Nation have camped out on Lelu Island to block construction. The facility would have a major impact on the coastal ecosystem, including salmon runs, that residents depend on. The resisters have intercepted ships carrying surveying equipment and disrupted other efforts to begin construction of the LNG facility.

All power to the Camps!

Supporting, growing, and escalating these direct action encampments should be a primary strategy for our movement to defend the Earth and her people. Not only do they serve as a base to launch disruptive actions against destructive projects, they also act as radical laboratories where new ideas and tactics are innovated, as well as focal points where new and inexperienced activists can dive in to a full blown direct action campaign relatively quickly. These camps help us to grow a culture of resistance by creating communities where we can experiment with self organization and autonomy, pointing a way forward out of the utter inneffectiveness of electoral politics. These spaces allow us to break through the isolation of social media activism, and find each other in real life to build bonds, make connections, and take meaningful action in defense of Mother Earth.

There are many ways to help these resistance camps thrive: donate money and supplies, organize work parties, do solidarity actions, spread the word with a presentation in your town, broadcast them on social media, and of course you can always join them, or better yet, start your own!

*Enbridge Line 5 is an existing oil pipeline. The Bad River Band of the Chippewa recently voted to not renew the lease on the pipeline which runs through their reservation. This will force Enbridge to discontinue its use or build a new route around the reservation.

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(CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico) — An international disaster relief organization reported Tuesday the first confirmed case of COVID-19 among migrants living in a tent encampment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Global Response Management said that one person in the Matamoros, Tamaulipas camp across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas had tested positive.

“Aggressive isolation and tracing measures have been enacted,” the U.S.-based relief organization said via Twitter.

There are some 2,000 asylum seekers living in tents along the border. The migrants from Central America and other parts of the world have been stranded by the United States’ suspension of asylum hearings due to the pandemic through at least mid-July.

Last week, Andrea Leiner, a spokeswoman for GRM, said they had implemented measures to try to reduce the risk of the virus’ spread, but conceded it was a challenge with confirmed infections cropping up among U.S. and Mexican immigration officials and in residents on both sides of the border.

They had placed tents a meter (3 feet) apart, leaving them open for ventilation and having everyone sleep head to toe to curtail the chances of transmission while people sleep.

Two Tamaulipas state immigration officials, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said the infected person was a Mexican citizen who was deported earlier in June from the United States to Reynosa and who arrived at the camp over the weekend.

Four other people the young woman had contact with tested negative, the officials said.

Asylum seekers began pooling in border cities like Matamoros under the U.S. policy commonly known as “Remain in Mexico,” in which asylum seekers can make their initial request for U.S. asylum, but have to wait in Mexico for the lengthy process to play out.

More than 60,000 asylum-seekers have been returned to Mexico to wait for hearings in U.S. court since January 2019, when the U.S. introduced its “Migrant Protection Protocols” policy.

There had been concern since the arrival of the pandemic that the crowded tents and lack of proper sanitation could lead to infections in the Matamoros camp.

GRM started working in the camp last September. The organization provides medical treatment with a team of medical volunteers.

Dr. Michele Heisler, medical director at Physicians for Human Rights and professor of internal medicine and public health at University of Michigan, in a statement characterized GRM’s work in the camp as “Herculean.” She criticized the U.S. policy for creating the situation and said asylum seekers should be paroled to stay with relatives in the U.S. while their cases are processed.

“Local and national health authorities in Mexico must act immediately to improve access to COVID-19 testing and care in Matamoros,” Heisler said. “The families living in the Matamoros tent city are among the most vulnerable in the hemisphere to the spread of COVID-19.”

Mexico’s own national case load continues to rise steadily, with 5,432 confirmed cases reported Tuesday, to bring the nationwide total to more than 226,000. Confirmed COVID-19 deaths rose by 648 Tuesday, to bring the total to 27,769 deaths.

AP writer Julie Watson in San Diego contributed to this report.

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socialjusticeartshare · 5 years ago

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Desperate Asylum-Seekers Stuck In Mexico Are Sending Their Children Across The US Border Alone

"Your children are everything and you want to be with them always, but you also want what's best for them."

MATAMOROS, Mexico — Emma walked her 16-year-old son to the banks of the Rio Grande River and did what dozens of other parents have started to do, she sent him to the United States alone.

The 42-year-old Honduran mother watched her son put his clothes in a plastic bag and swim across to turn himself in to Border Patrol agents. Before taking off last week, he promised to one day make enough money to buy her a washing machine.

"I could feel his fear. I could see the fear growing in his eyes every day that passed," Emma told BuzzFeed News. "He didn't want to stay here, but he also didn't want to go back to Honduras."

After asking the US for asylum, thousands of parents like Emma and their children have been sent back to Mexico to wait while their immigration cases are completed under a Trump administration policy known as "Remain in Mexico." But the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) policy doesn't apply to unaccompanied minors, which means children like Emma's son can't be returned.

In the town of Matamoros, Mexico, more than 2,600 immigrants are living on the streets in an encampment they're afraid of leaving out of fear of being kidnapped or assaulted.

Rather than wait months in squalid and dangerous conditions before their immigration cases are resolved, some parents are sending their children alone to the US, a practice first reported by the Intercept.

One immigrant advocate in Matamoros estimates that 40 to 50 children in MPP have decided, sometimes without parental consent, to go to the US without their parents.

"CBP continually experiences ebbs and flows with migration patterns due to many factors, but in each case CBP officers consider the sum total of all facts and circumstances and everyone is processed in accordance with the law," an official with the agency said in a statement.

BuzzFeed News spoke to multiple asylum-seekers who agreed to only use their first name. In the case of Emma's son, death awaited him in Honduras after he refused repeatedly to deliver drugs for a gang, she said. They arrived at the US–Mexico border in September but were sent back to Matamoros, where every day the hope of winning protection in the US dwindled.

In the last few months, bits of news of the Trump administration's latest policies aimed at making asylum harder reached the camp. Even if immigrants didn't fully grasp the changes, they knew getting asylum was only getting harder. Emma and her son didn't want to take the risk of ultimately being denied refuge and being sent back to Central America.

Emma, who spends most of her time inside her tent with her 7- and 10-year-old sons out of fear, said she often stares at the space where her son used to sleep.

"I miss talking to him, but I'm comforted knowing he's safer now," she said while fighting back tears.

Glady Cañas, an immigrant rights advocate in Matamoros, said the conditions at the camp and the months of waiting in Mexico are becoming too much for some families.

"These families are desperate," Cañas told BuzzFeed News. "I don't recommend that they do it, but I understand why they're sending their kids off alone."

Since the summer, when MPP was implemented in Matamoros, immigrants have been sleeping on the streets because the one shelter at the time wasn't big enough to house the number of people the US was sending back.

An encampment where people seeking asylum in the US live is seen moments before a cold front came in Matamoros, Mexico.

In October, about 300 people, frustrated over the living conditions and time they have to wait in Mexico before getting a decision from a US immigration judge, shut down a normally busy international border crossing in Matamoros for 15 hours. In response to some of the demands, the city opened up a shelter, but it only had the capacity to hold a sliver of the people, and most immigrants were too distrustful of the local government to go — they had heard rumors of officials forcing or coercing immigrants to leave on buses for southern Mexico.

A State Department advisory for the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, which includes cities like Matamoros, warns US residents about dangers when traveling to the area, noting that murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault are common.

With limited access to clean water, some immigrants have been bathing in the Rio Grande River, which is also used as a bathroom. When Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro visited the camp, an animal carcass floated in the Rio Grande as people bathed. One 17-year-old girl nearly drowned when she was bathing in the river and was dragged downstream by the river's powerful undercurrent.

Temperatures are also starting to drop, and doctors working at the camp are increasingly treating people with respiratory issues and infections that are made worse by being exposed to the elements.

Helen Perry, operations director of Global Response Management, an organization providing free health care to immigrants and asylum-seekers, fears there will be a flu outbreak and has been trying to get funding to give people vaccines.

"Kids are living in less than ideal living situations because of MPP," Perry told BuzzFeed News. "They are routinely exposed to a lack of clean drinking water and exposed to the elements on really cold nights."

Salvador, the 45-year-old father of the teenage girl who almost drowned in the Rio Grande, said his daughter also recently crossed the bridge connecting Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros to ask for asylum as an unaccompanied minor.

Since his daughter Breni nearly drowned in September, Salvador said she wasn't the same. She was always weak and fainted twice. When they'd go to the hospital, he said they were ignored or quickly sent off with medication that didn't help.

"God brought her back to me once, I don't want to risk her drowning again," Salvador said. "I told her it was her choice. What can I do? Over there, they give them better health care."

Salvador, who works as a parking attendant for businesses near the encampment, said his daughter was still at a shelter operated by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement. He hasn't spoken to Breni since she left, but her mother in Honduras has.

"I miss her. Your children are everything and you want to be with them always, but you also want what's best for them," Salvador said.

Carlos, a 40-year-old asylum-seeking father from Honduras, said he felt as if he had no choice but to send his 13-year-old daughter alone to the US.

"I know it's a gamble," he said, "but we all came here for a reason — to give our kids a better future — and right now, this is our best chance to give them that."

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